Principal Data Analyst - Business Cards & Payments - Field Strategy

Principal Data Analyst – Business Cards & Payments – Field Strategy

At Capital One, data is at the center of everything we do.

As a Principal Data Analyst, you will leverage analytic and technical skills to innovate, build, and maintain well‑managed data solutions to tackle business problems.

Responsibilities

• Innovation
  • Use open source/digital technologies to mine complex, voluminous, and varied data sources and platforms.
  • Build well‑managed data solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self‑service frameworks for data consumers.
  • Demonstrate ability to explore and quickly grasp new technologies to progress varied initiatives.
• Business Intelligence
  • Partner with the business to provide consultancy and translate business needs into design and development of tools, techniques, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization.
  • Drive analysis that provides meaningful insights on business strategies.
• Data Management
  • Drive an understanding and adherence to the principles of data quality management including metadata, lineage, and business definitions.
  • Work collaboratively with appropriate tech teams to manage security mechanisms and data access governance.
  • Build and execute tools to monitor and report on data quality.

Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Degree specialized in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline.
• Scripting experience in Python, R, Spark, and SQL.
• Strong desire and experience with data in various forms (data warehouses/SQL, unstructured data).
• Experience utilizing and developing within AWS services.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus at least 5 years of experience performing data analytics.
• At least 3 years of experience working with at least one scripting language.
• At least 3 years of experience utilizing a business intelligence visualization tool.
• At least 3 years of experience in querying, analyzing, and working with data languages and platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline.
• At least 4 years of experience coding in Python, R, Spark, or SQL.
• At least 4 years of experience working within process management and improvement methodologies – Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.
• At least 2 years of experience utilizing and developing within AWS services.
• At least 2 years of experience delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Management concepts and practices within the financial services industry.

Salary

• McLean, VA: $131,300 - $149,800 for Principal Data Analyst.
• Richmond, VA: $119,400 - $136,200 for Principal Data Analyst.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being.

Equal Opportunity & Additional Information

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.